Bill Text: CA AB970 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupils: limited English proficiency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB970 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB970-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 970	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 52177 of the Education Code, relating to
bilingual education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 970, as introduced, Alejo. Bilingual education.
   The Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act of 1976
requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure certain
aspects of bilingual education, including that sufficient bilingual
personnel are available within the State Department of Education, as
provided, using funds appropriated for these purposes. Under existing
law, these provisions became inoperative on June 30, 1987.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this law.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 52177 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   52177.  Out of funds appropriated for these purposes, the
superintendent shall administer this article. The responsibilities of
the superintendent in administering this article shall include, but
are not limited to, ensuring all of the following:
   (a) Sufficient bilingual personnel are available within the
department with familiarity, competency, and proficiency in
bilingual-crosscultural instruction to meet the needs of this article
and to administer, review, monitor, and evaluate the use of state or
federal categorical aid funds allocated to local districts 
which   that  have been wholly or partially
allocated on the basis of the educational needs of pupils of
limited-English proficiency.
   (b) Department personnel responsible for the administration,
review, monitoring, or evaluation of programs operating pursuant to
this article have been sufficiently trained to carry out the intent
of this article to meet the needs of the pupil of limited-English
proficiency.
   (c) There is within the department an administrative unit
responsible for bilingual-bicultural educational programs and
policies through which the superintendent shall carry out his or her
functions pursuant to this article.
   (d) Districts are providing each pupil of limited-English
proficiency with an educational opportunity equal to that available
to English-speaking pupils  ; they are   , 
making appropriate use of local and state general funds to provide
bilingual-crosscultural teachers and other required services 
;   ,  and an annual report is made to the
Legislature regarding the extent to which this article has been
implemented by school districts throughout the state. All districts
in which pupils of limited-English proficiency are enrolled shall be
reviewed through an onsite technical assistance, monitoring, and
enforcement process at least once every three years.